wéi

maintain, preserve, safeguard

HSK 5 #520

DEFINITIONS

维 wéi
  • abbr. for Uighur 維吾爾|维吾尔[Wei2 wu2 er3]
  • surname Wei
  • to preserve
  • to maintain
  • to hold together
  • dimension
  • vitamin (abbr. for 維生素|维生素[wei2 sheng1 su4])

STROKES

WORDS

生 wéi shēng abbr. for 維持生活|维持生活[wei2 chi2 sheng1 huo2]
特拉夫 tè lā wéi fū Tel Aviv; Tel Aviv-Jaffa
奇 wéi qí Pope Vigilius (in office 537-555); phonetic -vich or -wich in Russian names
普罗登斯 pǔ luó wéi dēng sī Providence, capital of Rhode Island
特 wéi tè Werther, opera by Jules Massenet; Werther, German masculine given name
埃 sū wéi āi Soviet (council)
路德希 lù dé wéi xī Ludwig (name)
布尔什克 bù ěr shí wéi kè Bolshevik
京人 wéi jīng rén Viking
斯堪的纳亚 sī kān dì nà wéi yà Scandinavia
lǐ wéi Titus Livius or Livy (59 BC-17 AD), Roman historian
进退谷 jìn tuì wéi gǔ no room to advance or to retreat (idiom); without any way out of a dilemma; trapped; in an impossible situation
奥斯辛 ào sī wéi xīn Auschwitz (concentration camp)
穆萨 mù sà wéi Moussavi, Mir Hussein (1941-), candidate in Iran's disputed 2009 elections
合成纤 hé chéng xiān wéi synthetic fiber
举步艰 jǔ bù wéi jiān to make progress only with great difficulty (idiom)
埃拉 lǐ wéi āi lā riviera (loanword)
特根斯坦 wéi tè gēn sī tǎn Wittgenstein (name)
霍洛茨 huò luò wéi cí Horowitz (name)
拉脱亚 lā tuō wéi yà Latvia
基 wéi jī wiki (Internet)
素 xiān wéi sù cellulose
马拉 mǎ lā wéi Malawi
珍 wéi zhēn Virgin (company)
达 wéi dá Vidar (Norse deity)